Deluxe Corporation Amends its Offer to Purchase Documents
June 04 2004 - 5:32PM
PR Newswire (US)
Deluxe Corporation Amends its Offer to Purchase Documents No Change
in Offer Price and No Extension of Offer Period Contemplated by
Amendment ST. PAUL, Minn., June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Deluxe
Corporation (NYSE:DLX) announced today that it filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) an amendment to its Offer
to Purchase with respect to its pending acquisition of New England
Business Service, Inc. (NYSE:NEB). The amendment includes one
change to one instruction in the Letter of Transmittal prepared for
tendering NEBS shareholders to use to deliver their NEBS shares to
The Bank of New York, the depositary for the offer. Deluxe noted
that NEBS shareholders may continue to use the Letter of
Transmittal originally delivered to them to tender their shares,
and do not need to obtain a revised Letter of Transmittal in order
to tender their shares to The Bank of New York. The amendment is
available at no charge through the SEC website, at
http://www.sec.gov/ . In addition, NEBS shareholders who desire to
receive copies of the amendment to the Offer to Purchase and the
Letter of Transmittal at no charge may contact Georgeson
Shareholder Communications Inc., the information agent for Deluxe's
offer. Georgeson Shareholder Communications may be contacted at: 17
State Street, 10th Floor, New York, New York 10004. Banks and
brokers should call: (212) 440-9800. All others may call, toll
free: (800) 733-6209. The expiration of the tender offer for NEBS
shares continues to be scheduled to occur at 11:59 p.m. EDT on
Wednesday, June 23, 2004. This announcement is neither an offer to
purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell shares of New
England Business Service, Inc. On May 25, 2004, Deluxe filed a
tender offer statement with the SEC and New England Business
Service filed a solicitation/recommendation statement with respect
to the offer. New England Business Service shareholders are advised
to read the tender offer statement regarding the acquisition of New
England Business Service referenced in this news release, as
amended, and the related solicitation/recommendation statement, as
amended. The tender offer statement, as amended, and the
solicitation/recommendation statement, as amended, contain
important information which should be read carefully before any
decision is made with respect to the offer. These documents have
been made available to all shareholders of New England Business
Service at no expense to them. These documents are also available
at no charge on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/ . About
Deluxe Corporation Deluxe Corporation provides personal and
business checks, business forms, labels, personalized stamps, fraud
prevention services and customer retention programs to banks,
credit unions, financial services companies, consumers and small
businesses. The Deluxe group of businesses reaches clients and
customers through a number of distribution channels: the Internet,
direct mail, the telephone and a nationwide sales force. Since its
beginning in 1915, Deluxe Corporation has been instrumental in
shaping the U.S. payments industry. More information about Deluxe
can be found at http://www.deluxe.com/ . About New England Business
Service, Inc. NEBS is a leading business-to-business company with
approximately 3.1 million active small business customers in the
United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and France. It supplies a
wide variety of business products and services including checks,
forms, packaging supplies, embossed foil seals and other printed
material which are marketed through direct mail, telesales, a
direct sales force, dealers, dedicated distributors and the
Internet. NEBS also designs, embroiders and sells specialty apparel
products through distributors and independent sales representatives
to the promotional products/advertising specialty industry,
primarily in the United States. More information about NEBS can be
found at http://www.nebs.com/ . DATASOURCE: Deluxe Corporation
CONTACT: Stuart Alexander, Vice President of Investor Relations,
+1-651-483-7358, or Douglas J. Treff, Senior Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer, +1-651-787-1587, both of Deluxe Corporation Web
site: http://www.deluxe.com/ http://www.nebs.com/
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